Articles on Leadership by Pastor Brandon Cox

DLP #003: What’s Killing Your Leadership? Depression and Mental Health Issues

Is depression just a faith issue? A sin issue? Is it just a matter of being more positive and less negative? Actually, it’s deeper than that. In this episode, we’ll explore the fact that depression and anxiety are deep soul issues, that lots of leaders...

DLP #002: What’s Killing Your Leadership? Burnout!

Thanks for Listening! Help out by subscribing and leaving a review in iTunes. Share this show using the buttons in the player above. Read the Article Version Below [Adapted from the Transcript] What is it that’s drowning us, as leaders? What is it that’s...

DLP #001: What’s Killing Your Leadership? Identity Issues!

Thanks for Listening! Help out by subscribing and leaving a review in iTunes. Share this show using the buttons in the player above. Read the Article Version Below [Adapted from the Transcript] Leaders are suffering! More than ever before, we’re watching as...

The Positive Side of Leading Under Pressure

As I write this, we’re three days from our church’s big Grand Opening at our new location. Our church is seven years old. We’ve met in an office, a hotel, a college campus, two movie theaters, and for the last three years, a leased location. Almost a...

7 Big Tips for Funding Your Ministry Vision This Year

What’s the ONE subject almost no church leader enjoys talking about? Yep. Money. Talking about money feels icky. Asking for money makes us feel like we’re begging. So we tiptoe. We skirt around the issue, assuming that taking a softer and more silent...

Effective Digital Leadership Is All About Creating Value for People

I did something a little scary recently. I launched a new business. Or, at least, I launched a new project within my business. I’ve been coaching leaders for quite a few years now, but recently I created The Digital Leadership Lab as an online hub for group...

Overcoming Three Big Leadership Fears

I’m a leader. And it’s likely that you are too, whether you’re in an officially recognized leadership position or not. Leadership is influence, and it’s pretty much guaranteed you’re influencing people – employees, kids, a spouse, a...

What Real Rest Looks Like for a Pastor

Resting isn’t nearly as easy as it sounds. Our traditional definition of rest is simple enough: Do less. A more fleshed-out, biblical understanding of rest, however, is a bit deeper than merely doing less. It’s really doing less to allow time and space...

8 Ways to Stop Biggering and Start Bettering the Church

Remember the Once-ler? From The Lorax by Dr. Seuss? He was a fairly normal guy who wanted to build a big business at the expense of the environment, so he kept “biggering and biggering” until all the trees were gone, the wildlife had vacated the landscape,...

Actually, God Calls the Qualified… Into Leadership

Years ago, a sweet lady in our church handed me a little slip of paper to encourage me on my journey. I unfolded it and it read: God doesn’t call the qualified; he qualifies the called. I’m not sure who said it originally, but I’ve heard and repeated...